Sobha Jaishankar, PhD

Biography

(Alumni NORDP Consultant)

Sobha has over 14 years of experience in research administration and currently oversees the functions of the Research Development division within UF Research. She established guidelines and SOPs for the different programs under the broad research development umbrella, including internal seed funding, limited submissions, faculty honorifics, large proposal development, faculty coaching, and the evaluation of centers and institutes.

Sobha is also responsible for managing the Florida Space Institute's Space Research Initiative at the University of Florida (UF) and the UF portion of the Florida High Tech Corridor Matching Grants Program.

From FY 2014 through FY 2021, Research Development, under Sobha's leadership, has assisted UF faculty in obtaining $142M in federal funding and provided assistance for another $529M in budget requests on unfunded proposals.